domingo, 13 de octubre de 2013

The Spanish language contains 10,000 Arabic words



The director of the Instituto Cervantes , Victor Garcia de la Concha , stressed that the Spanish language contains about 10,000 Arabic words contained in the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy ( RAE ) .

This was highlighted during the celebration in the House of Representatives of the Spanish-Moroccan Parliamentary Forum has addressed the ' cultural relations within the framework of a common heritage ' .

De la Concha has indicated that there are thousands of Arabic words in Spanish , while on the other hand are " hundreds " Spanish words left in Moroccan Arabic .

The director of the Cervantes Institute has highlighted the strong influence of Arabic in Spanish literature , which can be seen in the mystic poet San Juan de la Cruz , whose mother was of Moroccan descent .

De la Concha explained that the first time you spoke Spanish in Morocco was in the late fourteenth century, and stressed that the Spanish is spoken today " by a large number of Moroccans " , due in part to the arrival of Moroccan to Spain .

In the past year were more than 13,000 Moroccans who enrolled to learn Spanish in one of the six centers of the Instituto Cervantes in Morocco , a figure that is registering a slight increase during 2013-2014 indicated .


By Morocco , the president of the United House of Councillors Mohamed Cheikh Biadillah , said that words like oil, sugar , rate or sardines are Arabs and stressed the mutual influences between the two cultures.

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